Page, Susan Denise, 1964-

<p>Ambassador (ret.) Susan D. Page is a visiting professor of the practice at the Keough School for the 2019-20 academic year. She teaches Diplomacy and Statecraft and advises master of global affairs and undergraduate students. Page also contributes expertise to several entities within the Keough School, including the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Pulte Institute for Global Development. She is a member of the leadership team charged with building the Keough School’s international policy program.</p>

<p>Susan Denise Page (born 1964) is the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH). Prior to this, she was the Deputy Special Representative for the Rule of Law at the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).</p>

<p>She is a 1982 alumnae of Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Illinois. Page received an A.B. in English with high distinction from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She has also studied at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and conducted research on children and women's rights in Nepal through a Rotary International post-graduate fellowship.</p>

<p>Page served as the first United States Ambassador to South Sudan, the Acting United States Ambassador to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa as well as in other diplomatic postings. In addition, she has served the United Nations and has held the positions of Director of the Rule of Law Advisory Unit in the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) and Senior Legal Adviser for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sudan and in Rwanda.</p>

<p>Page's ambassadorial nomination was announced by the White House on August 18, 2011 and she was confirmed on October 18, 2011. She served in her role as U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan from October 2011 through July 2015.</p>

<p>Ambassador Susan D. Page, who has served the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations, and non-governmental organizations in senior roles for decades – across East, Central and Southern Africa, and in Haiti and Nepal – is joining the Ford School as a Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy and will be helping to build the Weiser Diplomacy Center. She also will serve as a Professor from Practice at the Law School.</p>

<p>Susan D. Page was nominated by President Barack Obama in August to become the first U.S. ambassador to the newly created state of South Sudan, which gained its independence on July 9, 2011. She had already spent several years working on negotiations for the nation’s secession from Sudan.</p>

<p>Page received an AB from the University of Michigan in 1986 and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1989. She then spent a year in Nepal on a Rotary International fellowship researching children’s and women’s rights issues.</p>

<p>She worked briefly as a lawyer in private practice and then began her career at the State Department in 1991, working on arms deals as an attorney-adviser for politico-military affairs in the Office of the Legal Adviser. </p>

<p>Page served as a Foreign Service Officer from 1993 to 2001, working as a regional legal adviser for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Kenya (1993-1995) and Botswana (1995-1998) and as a political officer in Rwanda from 1999 to 2001.</p>

<p>Later, she was senior legal adviser and chief of the Justice and Human Rights Unit for the United Nations Development Programme in Rwanda.</p>

<p>From 2002 to 2005, Page was the legal advisor to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Secretariat for Peace in the Sudan. This was followed by her assignment as director of the Rule of Law and Judicial System Advisory Unit at the UN Peace Support Mission to the Sudan (2005-2007).</p>

<p>Prior to her nomination, Page was Regional Director for Southern and East Africa at the National Democratic Institute and then Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs.</p>

<p>Page and her husband, Damien Coulibaly, have one son.</p>